My Self Reflection

My Self Reflection

I will describe my experience in Zayed higher organization and how it affects my life and how it changes my view for the future. Our volunteering was in a special needs organization that located in almafraq. At the start of my volunteering it was very hard to us to communicate with special needs and also how to act with them. But after every day of volunteering it become easier and easier because each day we learn new thongs from the teacher how to act with them. And it was a great experience for me.

I learned from Zayed higher organization many things in communicating and also in acting with people who have a disability and also we learned how to be organized and respect the time. Also I have learned how to respect people from different positions and also different ages. I also learned how to work in group and disrepute the work equally between us. And I learned from that organization how to teach in a good way because we teach the students how to do the work in a safety and proper way.

My life has been changed after my experience in Zayed higher organization because before I went to there I have a bad view about special needs that they fight with people they don't understand anything they don't know how to act, but after my first visit to the organization all my view has been changed i watched them working well and respecting there teacher and there friends. Also they have a good behavior and they act like normal people even they have a disability in some of there body parts.  It’s also changed me for the future because I will not take a background about a person from first look to him. And to think well about every one and to act with all people the same and respect them also special needs people that they are same as us and there is no difference between anyone of us.

4th Day

4th Day

04-05-2014

In our last day which was the 4^th day, as every day we went to there we go to make the attendance on reception disk after that we go to Mrs. Fatima office to see the plan for this day, and we went to welding workshop to meet Mr. Hilal there  and we started to prepare the board for the students so they will read what they needed to do, and then we started to teach them the tools and basic safety rules in the workshop.

And after that. We had a match with the students and we had a good time with them and we have fun. And we were sad because its our last day there and we didn’t want to leave that place and the students but we need to focus on new things in our major.

3rd Day

3rd Day

30-04-2014

In our third day, as usual what we do every do we go to do the attendance on reception disk after that we go to Mrs. Fatima office to see the plan for this day, we were shocked by sheikh Hazza Bin Zayed AlNahyan is coming in this day and all the works in the organization were preparing for his coming at the same day because they didn’t know about it. After that I went to wood workshop and I started teaching students to do there job and how to do it in prepare way and then sheikh Hazza come in and he saw the students what they are expected to do for that day and he asked them what are they doing and each students explained what he’s doing an how and who helped him to know how to do it.

After that we went with them for the break and we played a traditional game with them and we have fun with them and that’s the end of our 3^rd day.

                                               

                                                

                                            

2nd Day

28-04-2013
2nd Day

Today was our second day in zayed higher organization and as usual when we enter there we need to fill the informations paper in the reception and after that each one of us went to the workshop which he will work in and first i went to the joinery workshop and i helped the student to know how to fit the screw to the wood in proper way and where they should keep there other hand and how to hold the tools.

After that we went with them to sports class and we joined them playing football and it was an interesting and the match ended by a draw 7-7. And then we went with Mr. Jasim AlAli to welding workshop and we started to prepare the room with the students and clean the store and fix many thing in the room and then we celebrates our friend Saleem AlBlooshi Birthday and we have fun today.

Celebrating Saleem's AlBlooshi' Birthday

Playing Football 

Prepare the room

helping them in joinery workshop

First Day - ZHO

20-04-2014

Today was our first day in ZHO and first thing we did when we arrive is to ask the security guy about Mrs. Fatima desk and he was helpful and he shows us here office. We met Mrs. Fatima and she took us to auditorium to get some information’s about safety rules and orders and after that she took us to Mr. Rajaa who is the supervisor of the pre-operation workshop and he shows us his workshop and what they are doing there after that he went with us to operation workshop and he explained to us what the students are doing in this workshops. After that, we went to electronic workshop and the shows as some of there project and what they are doing these days and they are working on doing bulbs by recycling and they don’t spend any money on it. Later on, we went to wood workshop level one and they was working on catting the wood and we went to the next workshop behind it which was wood workshop level two where they was working on building small bouts body. And after that each one of us need to decide which workshop they want to war in and I chooses to work in electronic workshop. It was a good day and a good start for us in this organization.

ZHO Centre 

All Hand Made By The Students

All Made By Students

Some Students From The Centre

Exercise #6

UNICEF Activity 1: Exercise #6

Open the link http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/uae_44659.html

List and discus the latest newsline events in the United Arab Emirates

Dubai gives the UNECEF 100,000 $ to campaign in Djibouti like cash injection for the UNECEF to support logistical facility and also humanitarian aid.

UNICEF Activity 2:

How can you help UNICEF? Working in groups, fill in the table below.

Ideas of supporting UNICEF	Ways of achieving it	Date of completion
Awareness about smoking	Going to schools and malls to aware people about smoking and its bad effects
Literacy	Support programs and increasing the awareness about completing there high schools and university
Famine	Teaching famine countries how to grow there area
Migrants	Support them with basic needs to start there new life

1.     Takatof - Exercise #6

Click on the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMDUTjeymxk&feature=related

Activity 1

Using Google search for information about Takatof and answer the questions below

What is Takatof?

It’s a program for social volunteering. It’s a national wide volunteering initiative in the UAE

  

Which year did start? And who started it?

Its has been established in 2005 under the patronage of his highness sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, crown prince of AbuDhabi.

What volunteer work have they done?

Community projects like maintain some houses and schools.

Ramadan project supporting low-income families.

How can you help?

By making awareness about the community needs for volunteering works.

Involve as much as I can in volunteering works if I have time.

Exercise #5

Volunteering in different spheres of society - Exercise #5

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning / Exercise #5

Week 4 - Looking at volunteering in different spheres of society.

During the summer of 2012 the Olympic Games were held in London. David Moorcroft is a former athlete. At one point he held the world record for the 5,000 metres. David can be heard discussing the importance of volunteering the Olympic Games.

Zoe Hall is a lady who was one of the volunteers at the Games. She talks about the event and how important it was at the time as well as how much it has inspired her to continue working as a volunteer.

This link is about half way down the page. Then click on 'Hear more radio features' - page 2 Volunteering  - to hear the selection again..

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/

Listen again and see if you can work out the answers to these questions about the interview:

1.                  How old were the Games volunteers? All ages

2.                  During the Games, the volunteers had a special title. What was this special title? Game maker

3.                  Complete this quote from David… “… for a moment in time volunteering had a profile  and an image that they fully  deserved  but don’t always get.”

4.                  David mentions that some of the volunteers are semi-retired. What does this mean? 

            Part time volunteers

5.                  Zoe worked in Events Services. Where was this located? 

             Olympic stadium  

6.                  How does she describe the experience of volunteering for the Olympics and Paralympics? Best experience in her life.

7.                  What benefits of volunteering, according to Zoe?

a.     Fun 

b.     Improve confidant 

c.     Meet new people 

d.     Feeling satisfied

8.                  Why does David feel that volunteering in the community is so important?

           Because all ages can be part of volunteering and its doesn’t need specific ages

 This page is also from AGE UK.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/volunteers-week/

What volunteer roles do the following people have?

	Name	Job
1	John McArthur	Admin and information volunteer
2	Samarah Hashmi	Server analyst volunteer
3	Oliver Stannard	Copywriter volunteer
4	Stanley Parker	Volunteer in market Drayton
5	Camilla Williamson	Volunteer in parliamentary assistant

Look again at these people and their jobs. What can you say about volunteering from the information in your chart?

All people from any can do a volunteer works.

Exercise #4

Human Rights Activity/ Exercise #4

1.     Present the map to the whole class.

·         Did any parts of your map have a high concentration of rights? How do you explain this? 

Yes, there where many schools, masjids, hospitals, shops and police station in same place because this is crowded with people so they need more shops to be near to them.    

·         Did any parts have few or no rights associations? How do you explain this?

Yes, Mussafah because its and industrial area and its not living area so there is no many people living there.

·         Are there any articles of the UDHR that seem to be especially exercised in this community? How can this be explained?

Yes 

Church and Mosques     -     freedom of belief and religion.

Parks, hotels and clubs      -     right of rest and leisure.

·        Are there any articles of the UDHR that no group included on their map? How can this be explained?

 Yes, Airport     -      Right to free movement in and out of the country.

How could town/city planners might use information like this when they develop areas for their citizens?

By making the more needs behind every living areas so they will keep life for people more easier so they will find every thing near to them.

Excercise #7

LSH 2903 – Community Service – Learning /  Exercise #7

Charity and Volunteering in the UAE - Information and Activities

The UAE is famous for its hospitality and the desire to give one's time and efforts to help other people.

When I travel to other countries and talk to people about my job, the students and the UAE in general, one constant thought I hear repeated is that the UAE is a very hospitable country and its people are very generous. People in the UAE often want to do things to help others, whether it is other UAE Nationals or people from other countries.

Within the UAE we see so many examples of people volunteering and giving to charities to try and help others. People do this out of the simple goodness of their hearts and to try to help other people to have a better life than they have at the moment. An obvious example is TAKATOF which promotes the idea of volunteering within the country.

Just last semester (March 2013) we had a major charity fundraising week when students, staff and teachers of ADMC raised 25,000 Dh to donate to a school in a poor village Cambodia.

The UAE is also very strongly represented in the international field of assisting people from other countries. It may be through the Red Crescent that people donate money, time or skills to try and help others. So much of the time when we hear about various international problems, the UAE is one of the first to step forward and provide assistance.

Activities

Use the following link to access the website of the UAE Red Crescent.

Once you are there, see if you can answer the following questions. This will help you to find out what the organisation does, what some of their projects are and who are the people involved in the organisation.

http://rcuae.ae/

1.                   The UAE Red Crescent has contributed to a number of building projects both inside and outside the UAE. Name three projects the UAERC has worked on

a.       Expanding the camp all the way to Jordan for the Syrian’s refugees.

b.      Implementation of health and the social program of the Palestinian territory.

c.       Making new projects that are for the Palestinian Red Crescent society for the next three years.

2.                  Name at least 4 countries the UAERC has worked in to provide various project assistance

a.       Afghanistan

b.       Egypt

c.       Sirlanke

d.      Syria

3.                   What was the estimated total cost of projects undertaken in the UAE during 2009?

-          Over 180,830,333 million

4.                   According to the information about the foreign based projects, which group of projects received funding of 8,373,558 Dirhams?

-          External projects

5.                   According to the information about the Foreign Projects, the UAERC is involved in some very important work. According to the English translation, these are listed below. Try to come up with an easy explanation for each of the terms in the grid.

	Translation Term	My/Our own meaning
	reconstruction	Rebuilding
	disasters	Mischances
	Crises	Disaster
	rehabilitation	Recovery
	infrastructure	Structure
	devastation	Damage
	public utilities	Services

6.                   Name three situations which are listed as �natural disasters�.

a.       Storms

b.       Earthquakes

c.       Deluge

7.                   Crescent Volunteers University

What are the three areas of training/qualification that university students could work towards?

a.       First aid

b.      Volunteer work methods

c.       The international humanitarian law